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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] (finance.yahoo.com)
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[-] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

Microsoft also owns Battlenet now

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Do people actually consider that a competitor?

[-] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

I think we'd be foolish to not. From what I can find Blizzard gets over 25 million monthly users really consistently and that's not including the rest of the store. Toss in Minecraft and Microsoft Store and I honestly would be shocked if Microsoft doesn't hold more monthly users than Epic Game Store.

If Steam was as monopolistic as it is claimed by Sweeny, having exclusivity away from Steam would be a death sentence for a game.

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